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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
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| A.D. | |
|---|---|
| 277. | Mani crucified in Persia. |
| 284. | Diocletian became emperor. |
| 303. | Diocletian persecuted the Christians. |
| 311. | Galerius abandoned the persecution of the Christians. |
| 312. | Constantine the Great became emperor. |
| 313. | Constantine presided over a Christian Council at Arles. |
| 321. | Fresh Gothic raids driven back. |
| 323. | Constantine presided over the Council of Nicæa. |
| 337. | Vandals driven by Goths obtained leave to settle in Pannonia. Constantine baptized on his death-bed. |
| 354. | St. Augustine born. |
| 361-3. | Julian the Apostate attempted to substitute Mithraism for Christianity. |
| 379. | Theodosius the Great (a Spaniard) emperor. |
| 390. | The statue of Serapis at Alexandria broken up. |
| 392. | Theodosius the Great, emperor of east and west. |
| 395. | Theodosius the Great died. Honorius and Arcadius redivided the empire with Stilicho and Alaric as their masters and protectors. |
| 410. | The Visigoths under Alaric captured Rome. |
| 425. | Vandals settling in south of Spain. Huns in Pannonia, Goths in Dalmatia. Visigoths and Suevi in Portugal and North Spain. English invading Britain. |
| 429. | Vandals under Genseric invaded Africa. |
| 439. | Vandals took Carthage. |
| 448. | Priscus visited Attila. |
| 451. | Attila raided Gaul and was defeated by Franks, Alemanni, and Romans at Troyes. |
| 453. | Death of Attila. |
| 455. | Vandals sacked Rome. |
| 470. | Ephthalites' raid into India. |
| 476. | Odoacer, king of a medley of Teutonic tribes, informed Constantinople that there was no emperor in the West. End of the Western Empire. |
| 480. | St. Benedict born. |
| 481. | Clovis in France. The Merovingians. |
| 483. | Nestorian church broke away from the Orthodox Christian church. |